2025-08-09 –, KISUMU (🗣️ ar, es, fr, sw)
Language: English
Peacekeepers around the world work to bring peace and stability in multiple countries. However, they increasingly face disinformation campaigns directed at them. The UN department of peacekeeping operations would like to join forces with the Wikimedia movement to ensure that information about the peacekeeping missions is accurate. This edit-a-thon would serve the double purpose of improving accurate information about UN peacekeeping missions and share insight on these missions with the Wikimedia movement.
More than ever, Peacekeepers around the world need to face not only the risk of physical harm, but also the risks posed by disinformation.
Accurate, reliable information on peace missions is essential to ensure that the people they are protecting can be safeguarded.
Joining forces with the Wikimedia movement, the department of peacekeeping operations wants to organize an edit-a-thon that will focus on UN peacekeeping missions and will improve knowledge on the United Nations on Wikipedia.
- What other themes or topics does your session fit into? Please choose from the list of tags below.
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Campaigns, Capacity building, Collaboration, Edit-a-thons
- How does your session relate to the event theme: Wikimania@20: Inclusivity. Impact. Sustainability?
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This session will show concretely how Wikimedians can be impactful and improve peace and security globally.
- What is the experience level needed for the audience for your session?
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Everyone can participate in this session
- How do you plan to deliver this session? You will be asked to confirm this closer to the date in case of changes to the format.
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Onsite in Nairobi
- Should your session be selected for the program, do you agree to release your session and supporting materials on-wiki and on the eventyay platform under CC BY-SA 4.0?
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I agree
I’ve worked at the Foundation since 2020 and have organized multiple events and participated in community conferences.